Introducing the benefits of a career in the trades to youth in the Omaha metro area.

Trades Offer Opportunities that Lead to Success (T.O.O.L.S.) is a collaborative program geared towards seventh through twelfth graders that provides year-round career exploration activities in the skilled trades. The T.O.O.L.S. program can be tailored to your organizations needs. Please contact us to see how T.O.O.L.S. can help impact the youth you serve.

  • Forty-plus years of the “college-for-all” movement has saddled students with debt and discouraged students from entering the skilled-trades.

  • Over 50% of the skilled-labor workforce in Nebraska is going to retire in the next few years and we’re not even close to filling the paid training opportunities available right now.

  • Recent high school graduates are failing the trade apprenticeship entry-exams at an alarming rate. (Basic Math)

T.O.O.L.S. works to reverse these trends.

Our School District and Community Partners

Our Partners In the Skilled Trades